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UN panel says no to human cloning
A draft declaration presented by Honduras was adopted Friday by the UN
General Assembly's Sixth Committee 71 to 35, with 43 countries
abstaining.
The Organisation of Islamic Conference said before the vote that its
members would abstain since there was no consensus on the text.
The declaration, passed in the form of a resolution, calls upon member
states "to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are
incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life".
It also calls upon member states "to adopt all measures necessary to
protect adequately human life in the application of life sciences".
Belgium proposed several amendments to Honduras' text in a bid to make
it more acceptable to countries that favour cloning of human embryos
for medical research. But most amendments were rejected.
The vote put an end to four years of fierce debate in the 191-nation
UN's legal committee over the cloning issue.
The panel has been bitterly divided over whether to ban both the
cloning of human beings and that of human embryos for the purpose of
medical research.
The US, Cost Rica and several other countries, which view the cloning
of human embryos for stem cell research as taking of human life, have
insisted on a ban on all forms of human cloning.
But Belgium, backed by Japan and dozens of other countries, has
maintained that therapeutic cloning may be allowed in order to find a
cure for millions of people suffering from cancer, diabetes,
Alzheimer's and other diseases.
The sharp differences forced the two camps to abandon an attempt at a
legally binding convention banning human cloning late last year.
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